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| Lashkar-e-Tayyaba linked to Mumbai attacks? |
| 2008-12-01 |
| Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) -- the group suspected of training the Mumbai attackers -- was established to fight Indian rule in Kashmir and has past links to Pakistani intelligence and Al Qaeda. The group is on the US watch-list of terrorist organisations and is banned in the UK and several other countries. Founded by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed in 1989 as the military wing of the Islamic centre Markaz Dawa-wal Irshad, it is headquartered in Muridke near Lahore. Saeed is known to have received funds from Saudi donors and Pakistani intelligence to launch his group, which subsequently acquired land in Muridke to organise militant cells and training. An LT spokesman in Srinagar denied the group was involved in the Mumbai attacks, but it has been named in several other attacks in India. When LT was blamed for the 2001 attacks on Indian parliament, it brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. The group denied any involvement, but Pakistani authorities outlawed it in 2002, shortly before which Saeed left LT to set up a charity. Now run by Qari Abdul Wahid Kashmiri, the group currently maintains a low profile in Pakistan and focuses its activities in IHK. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 has past links to Pakistani intelligence and Al Qaeda That's like saying the Pope has "past links" to the Vatican. |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-12-01 08:17 |